Chinese symbol for “cartilage”
软骨
ruǎn gǔ
Traditional: 軟骨
cartilage
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cartilage is 软骨 (ruǎn gǔ), defined as: cartilage.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 软骨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 软件 (軟件) | ruǎn jiàn | software |
| 软体 (軟體) | ruǎn tǐ | (of an animal) soft-bodied; (Tw) software |
| 软弱 (軟弱) | ruǎn ruò | weak; feeble |
| 柔软 (柔軟) | róu ruǎn | soft |
| 软禁 (軟禁) | ruǎn jìn | to place under house arrest |
| 疲软 (疲軟) | pí ruǎn | tired and feeble |
| 骨头 (骨頭) | gǔ tou | bone; measure word: 根 (gēn), 块 (kuài) |
| 骨干 (骨幹) | gǔ gàn | diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cartilage”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.